• Grand Rapids was the first city in the U.S. to put fluoride in their water.

  • The first state police radio system in the world was established in 1929 by the Michigan State Police.

  • In 1939, the Packard Motor Car Company in Detroit manufactured the first air-conditioned car.

  • Eau Claire holds the annual International Cherry Pit Spitting Championship contest. The record set in 1988, was for spitting 72 feet, 7 1/2 inches.
  • Michigan has the only floating post office in the world. The J.W. Westcott II delivers mail to ships still underway.

  • Spanning five miles between the upper and lower peninsulas of Michigan, The Mackinac Bridge is one of the longest suspension bridges in the world.

  • The first people in the nation to receive assigned phone numbers lived in Detroit in 1879.

  • Singing sand can be found on the beaches of Grand Haven. The sand particles make a whistling sound as you walk upon them.

  • The first soda pop made in the U.S., Vernor’s ginger ale, was created by accident in 1866 in Detroit.

  • Henry Ford, who produced his first experimental car in 1893, founded the Ford Motor Company in 1903.

  • Michigan is a leading state in the ownership of recreational boats and in the sale of hunting and fishing licenses.

  • The Great Lakes account for one-fifth of the world's surface freshwater supply.

  • Michigan has approximately 40 ski resorts.

  • Mackinac Bridge: Completed in 1957, the five-mile-long suspension bridge (WORLD'S LONGEST SUSPENSION BRIDGE) connects Michigan's peninsulas across the Straits of Mackinac.


State Size: 57,022 square miles of land
38,575 square miles of Great Lakes water
11,037 inland lakes.
3,200 miles of shoreline, the longest of any state but Alaska
36,000 miles of rivers and streams Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake in the world, 31,820 square miles. More than 90 percent of the Upper Peninsula's land is forested. Maples, aspen, oak, evergreen, and elms are cut and shipped throughout the nation in all seasons.
More than 150 waterfalls
There are 3.9 million acres of state forest land with about 150 campgrounds and 2.7 million acres of national forest with some 80 campgrounds

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